The UMass Graduate Women in STEM are now on LinkedIn! Connect with us to: Network with current GWIS members and alumni, Expand your LinkedIn network, Post/find job listings, Promote research and news, and Engage and participate in discussions. Follow the link here to request to join or search for “UMass Graduate Women in STEM” on […]
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Networking Summer Kick Off BBQ a Wild(Wood) Success!
The sky was clear, the music was rocking, and the food was delicious! The end of spring semester/summer kickoff event drew a huge crowd, who were all there to mingle and enjoy the music played by Industrial Waste (the physics folk band) and Off the Mark (graduate students from the Civil and Environmental Engineering program). Some […]
Peer Mentoring Groups Will Kick Off Summer with an Ice Cream Social!
It’s an Ice Cream* Social! Join us for a chance to meet your new peer mentoring group members. We’ll be guiding groups with some icebreaker activities and tips & tricks to keep your group going strong all summer long! Monday, June 8th @ 5-6pm 252 Goessmann *dairy-free options and toppings will be available
GWIS Summer Kickoff BBQ
Please join us for the first annual GWIS Summer Kickoff BBQ! Come celebrate the end of academic year and beginning of summer on Friday, May 29th from 1:00 – 4:00 pm on the “Engineering Quad” – the lawn in front of Marston and Marcus Halls. Feel free to bring a frisbee or lawn game to […]
Outreach Event on Friday May 29th @ UMass with 8th graders
Does your research address sustainability? The 8th graders of the Four Rivers Charter School in Greenfield MA are studying the question: what technologies (and ideas) represent the best hope for our future? It’s a question that focuses on sustainability in all the ways we can imagine we need to think about it. When: Friday May 29th from […]
Interested in Peer Mentoring?
New peer mentoring groups are starting to form from the primordial GWIS sludge! Sign up if you’re interested in joining a new support network (not just because of the ice cream social that will happen in a few weeks, date TBA)! Hope to see you there 🙂 Here’s the link again: https://websites.umass.edu/gwis/2015/05/04/interested-in-peer-mentoring/
SWE Junior Engineering Girl Scouts Day Saturday April 25th
The Society of Women Engineers are in need of a couple more volunteers for Junior Engineering Girl Scouts Day this Saturday, April 25th and would love to have some of the GWIS women help out. This year the girl scouts are building solar cars and learning about alternative energies. Each volunteer will primarily work with […]
April Graduate Student Appreciation Day Coffee Hour
Come network (and eat donuts!) with graduate students from STEM fields at our FINAL coffee hour of the semester! WHEN: Wednesday, April 22 10:30 am – 11:30 am WHERE: Morrill II Room 319 Enjoy free coffee, cheesecake, Atkins cider donuts, and fruit! All are welcome – no registration required.
Networking’s First Event – the Gender Matters Lecture Reception
Around fifty people showed up to our networking reception which took place immediately after the Gender Matters Lecture last week. The lecture focused on implicit biases against women in STEM, in academia, and in general. The reception afterwards had a fantastic turnout – we were really excited to see everyone there! Attendees included students, faculty, […]
(Another) Fantastic Undergraduate/Graduate Student Mentoring Dinner!
Last month at a mentoring dinner event, our dinner theme focused on graduate school applications – we wanted to get the undergraduate students interested in and excited about the process of applying to graduate school. Our undergraduate mentees got plenty of informal time to talk about their thoughts on graduate school and ask any questions they […]
